TY - GEN
T1 - Perceptual color contrast based watershed for color image segmentation
AU - Chi, Chao Yu
AU - Tai, Shen Chuan
PY - 2006/1/1
Y1 - 2006/1/1
N2 - The goal of image segmentation is to partition the image into several homogenous regions or particular objects with similar properties, such like color and texture. It is essential for object recognition and image retrieval, and it also could enhance the performance of certain compression algorithms. In this paper, a perceptual color contrast based watershed algorithm for color images segmentation is presented. The conventional watershed segmentation algorithm is not suitable for color image directly, since it is hard to decide a suitable color gradient measurement for color image. The proposed algorithm adopts HSV color space to define the color contrast gradient for the improvement of watershed algorithm. Experimental result shows that the proposed algorithm can avoid the over segmentation problem, and produce segmented result which is close to human perception.
AB - The goal of image segmentation is to partition the image into several homogenous regions or particular objects with similar properties, such like color and texture. It is essential for object recognition and image retrieval, and it also could enhance the performance of certain compression algorithms. In this paper, a perceptual color contrast based watershed algorithm for color images segmentation is presented. The conventional watershed segmentation algorithm is not suitable for color image directly, since it is hard to decide a suitable color gradient measurement for color image. The proposed algorithm adopts HSV color space to define the color contrast gradient for the improvement of watershed algorithm. Experimental result shows that the proposed algorithm can avoid the over segmentation problem, and produce segmented result which is close to human perception.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSMC.2006.384669
DO - 10.1109/ICSMC.2006.384669
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 1424401003
SN - 9781424401000
T3 - Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
SP - 3548
EP - 3553
BT - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Y2 - 8 October 2006 through 11 October 2006
ER -